Medical Pioneer Takes Institute Post
Zang-Hee Cho, UC Irvine professor of radiological sciences, has been elected as a foreign associate to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
Foreign associates at the institute are scientists who are citizens of foreign countries.
Cho, a native of Korea, is a pioneer of two of the most widely used medical diagnostic tools in the world: Positron Emission Topography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
He and his colleagues recently developed an imaging technique to eliminate the knocking sounds during MRIs.
